Closer to home (and planet Earth), Gruene Hall's dance floor will offer early birds a close-up, standing-room-only look at the maker of signature tracks such as “Hello It's Me,” “Can We Still Be Friends,” “I Saw the Light” and “A Dream Goes On Forever,” plus deep album tracks from an innovative and uncompromising musical career.

“I'm really not a big fan of rock 'n' roll,” Rundgren claims in a posting on his web site. Yet he's managed to shape some of rock's greatest — Janis Joplin, Badfinger, the Tubes, Patti Smith and Cheap Trick.